]]>By: The Saturday Summary – 8/13/2011 — The Crossing of Marketing and IThttp://joehall.me/feedburner-feedsmith-301-redirects-not-302/08/#comment-1620
Sat, 13 Aug 2011 14:26:45 +0000http://joehall.me/?p=590#comment-1620[…] Some more SEO advice, this time by Joe Hall on his web site covering how some WordPress plugins for FeedBurner handle the redirect. Check out FeedBurner FeedSmith 301 Redirects Not 302 […]
]]>By: Joe Hallhttp://joehall.me/feedburner-feedsmith-301-redirects-not-302/08/#comment-1617
Mon, 08 Aug 2011 23:51:31 +0000http://joehall.me/?p=590#comment-1617I like thinking of an RSS feed as another page on your web site. Which means that all of the links are additional internal links for your site. And because RSS is based on XML it should work the same way a XML site map does. All of this improves crawl-ability, internal links, and indexation. But, here’s the really cool thing about services like Feedburner, they are on a different domain, which means that the page that was once a part of your site, is now on a different domain, which means more external links.

Either way we want the engines to be crawling and indexing our feeds to make the links and content accessible to updates and rankings.

]]>By: Anita Campbellhttp://joehall.me/feedburner-feedsmith-301-redirects-not-302/08/#comment-1615
Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:40:54 +0000http://joehall.me/?p=590#comment-1615Hi Joe, congrats on improving this plugin, which I learned about thru Skitzzo’s tweet. But a question on this: why does the 301 vs 302 redirect issue matter for an RSS feed? I understand the difference between the two in general. However, I am not sure I’m grasping the significance as it relates to a feed. Just wondering why it matters … figured I’d go straight to the source and ask.